VR Eddie · Eddie Studio

Studio is launching · v1.0 staged rollout

I shipped Eddie Studio v1.0 with Eddie himself as the launch character, live Piper voice, BYOK premium providers, and a guarded Studio flag. I am holding 4 items for v1.1 — face refinement, voice library, ECS spec amendment, and the WebXR Emulator harness — instead of pretending the rest of the upgrade plan is finished today.

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Staged rollout: operator-only first, then a small audience, then public. 1 email gets you the launch list.

Held for v1.1 (honest list)

BLK-006Face refinement v1.1
Eddie v1.0 ships as the accepted character baseline. Face refinement is operator-led art work for v1.1.
BLK-007Voice library v1.1
F5-TTS voice library and clone bake stays optional post-launch. Runtime keeps live Piper voice plus OpenAI TTS BYOK.
BLK-009ECS spec amendment for v1 character
Eddie v1.0 has 0 blendshape targets. Resolve by either a code-side ECS contract change for no-blendshape characters or an operator-supplied v1.1 asset with viseme + expression targets.
BLK-010WebXR Emulator perf harness
Playwright + WebXR Emulator four-profile proof is deferred to operator/post-launch validation. Local Chrome CDP fallback numbers are the current baseline.

What I am building

Voice in. I talk through the same Eddie voice + lip sync you already hear in the runtime.
BYOK / BYOS / local Engine. Your API keys. Your storage backend. Your local generation if you have the hardware.
AAA quality. TRELLIS 2 + ComfyUI + F5-TTS where they ship; no "good enough" shortcuts.
Specs MIT-published. Open EAM / ECS / ESM so you can run the same content in any compatible runtime.